- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who assists workers engaged in fabrication of structural or sheet metal products, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts, positions, and removes workpieces from machines to assist in fitting and welding.
* Holds tape and rods and marks reference points to assist in layout.
* Loads, stacks, and transports stock, tools, dies, and work in process by hand or truck.
* Attaches rope or grappling equipment to workpieces to prepare workpiece for moving by crane or jib.
* Cleans and scrapes metal preparatory to fabricating, welding, painting, or shipping, using scraping tool, abrasive, or placing in solvent bath.
* Paints metal stocks, using paintbrush.
* Picks up and trucks scrap from work areas.
* May be designated by trade as Ironworker shop helper; sheet-metal-shop helper.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs defective automotive units, such as engines, transmissions, or differentials, in assembled vehicles, using handtools and power tools and applying knowledge of mechanical systems. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads inspection cards to determine defects in vehicle components.
* Disassembles and repairs defective units on assembled vehicles or replaces them with different units, using mechanic's handtools and portable power tools.
* Routes repaired vehicles to testing area for final inspection.
* May remove and repair defective units of completed automotive vehicles.
* May place malfunctioning units on repair stand, using hoist.
* May be designated according to type of unit repaired as differential repairer; engine repairer; transmission repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends gravity separator to separate nitroglycerin from spent acids, preparatory to washing, neutralizing, and processing into explosives. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns petcock to transfer mixture of spent acids and nitroglycerin from batch nitrator to separator.
* Turns petcock to drain acids from nitroglycerin into trough leading to spent-acid storage.
* Observes liquid flowing from spigot and moves trough to discharge product into wash tank when color change indicates nitroglycerin is flowing from separator.
* Observes tank thermometer to detect accumulation of heat that could cause decomposition and explosion and turns valves to regulate heat to prevent explosion or decomposition.
* May move control to dump tank contents into water-filled vat if temperature increase indicates explosion may be imminent.
* May wash and neutralize nitroglycerin.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs broken or cracked castings and forgings, using special cold process requiring no welding. Respnsibilities include:
* Calculates factors, such as size, depth, and position of fracture, and tensile strength and distribution of stress and strain in material.
* Employs combination of holding and locking devices to make repair, using airhammers, air drills, air grinders, punches, and strippers to insert holding and locking devices in casting and to smooth finish.
* May fabricate special angle heads for airhammer, air grinder, and air drill, using blacksmith tools and anvil.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates physiological training devices, such as pressure suits, pressure chamber, parasail equipment, and ejection seats, that simulate flying conditions, to indoctrinate flying personnel to physical and physiological stresses encountered in flight. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews trainees to obtain physiological and medical histories to detect evidence of disqualifying conditions, prior to simulated flight.
* Moves levers, turns knobs, and presses buttons on control panel to regulate gas and airflow, temperature, and barometric pressure in pressure chamber to simulate flying conditions at varying altitudes and speeds.
* Operates altitude pressure suit control console which adjusts pressure inside flying suits and helmets.
* Operates parasail training equipment, such as tow reel, tow truck, radio equipment, and meteorological devices.
* Adjusts seat, harness, and headrest of ejection tower for safety of personnel.
* Places ammunition in catapult chamber to load catapult for firing.
* Fires catapult that ejects seat to simulate ejection from aircraft.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms angle iron used in making wood boxes. Respnsibilities include:
* Shifts lever to start machine.
* Positions and holds metal strip on die of machine as V-shaped periphery of roller attached to ram passes over metal, pressing metal into shape of angle iron.
* Removes angle iron from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates operational, management, and supportive services of associate post offices within district area known as sectional center. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and implements facility programs in accordance with regional and national policy and to meet established objectives for providing efficient and effective postal services.
* Approves operating budgets of associate post offices.
* Directs such supportive services as personnel administration, finance, safety, and plant and vehicle maintenance.
* Participates in selecting, training, and removing postmasters and top level management of associate postal units.
* Provides postal information to news media, business representatives, and local governmental agencies.
* May direct and coordinate operations of various sectional centers within a district and be designated District Manager, Postal Service.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment, such as washers, rectifiers, condensers, and mixing tanks arranged in series to recover pyridine sulfate from tar oils. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares solutions of diluted sulfuric acid and sodium carbonate to specified concentration by adding water.
* Pumps solutions into system to dissolve pyridine and neutralize acids.
* Starts pumps to circulate batch through system, observing gauges and other instruments.
* Removes tarry compounds dissolved in pyridine sulfate solution by rectifying (boiling) solution with steam.
* Samples products for analysis, and interprets results and makes adjustments to control quantity and quality of product according to laboratory report.
* Inspects equipment, and steams out lines, changes charts, lubricates equipment, and makes minor repairs and adjustments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes worn floor covering from floors of streetcars and lays new floor covering. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets felt on floor and cuts it around obstructions to fit floor.
* Applies coat of liquid cement to floor with brush and replaces felt on floor.
* Sets covering on floor and cuts off correct lengths and shapes.
* Applies coat of cement to felt and sets floor covering over cemented felt.
* Tacks edges of covering.
* Patches linoleum floors in same manner.
* Heats asphalt with blow torch and applies asphalt to cracks or openings and smooths it to match level of floor, using trowel, to patch asphaltic floors.
Industry:Professional careers
